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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Basics to Druids feral tanking


These days , even a healer's queue would take ages because many people become healers , so now its time for your druid to become a tank , one of the reasons to become a tank is you will always find a spot in raids and randoms in a blink , plus you will always be able to get new gear , even to ask raid leaders that you want to roll on off spec items unless you are in some nice guild .


Druid's tanking basic build:
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http://www.wowhead.com/talent#0ZxGGsfbzceRcczAkbE0z (Source wowwiki)

Druid's threat :
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Druid's threat is highly dependent on your Expertise and Hit Rating , so you must reach the capacity for both of these stats.

-Expertise cap : You will need Primal Precision (2/2) talent + 443 Expertise points to become Capped in this stat.
-Hit rating cap: You will need 263 hit points which gives a hit rating of 8%.

P.S: Some people say that we will need to have our weapon with some high DPS it self as a part to increase threat , yet am not very sure about it.

Druids and Defense Rating:
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One of the cool thing about bear tanks , you don't need defense rating at any point , because we have a talent called Survival of the Fittest which eliminates the need for defense rating , so our primary stat for tanking becomes Agility as its the only stat which druids benefit from to gain Dodge , druids are proud of their high armor and high dodge rating and of course their high stamina compared to other tanks , those all fit the place of being unable to parry or block , yet to be able to start starter raids such as naxx (10/25) , you will need at least (30%) dodge chance , later on ice crown citidal you will need at least 50%-60% because of the debuff Chill of the Throne .


Druids tanking rotation:
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- Tanking one target rotation :
Faerie Fire > Mangle > Maul > Lacerate > Demoralizing Roar

For Lacerate you will still need to use it even if you have 5 stacks on your target already , but for Demoralizing Roar , just reapply it when the effect expires.

-AoE Tanking :
For my self when it comes to AoE tanking i use a simple macro :

/cast Maul
/cast Swipe

and don't forget to keep your Demoralizing Roar up.

while you should have Glyph of Maul , start spamming this macro while tabbing between the mobs around you this will be just fine specially when you are tanking ICC trash.

thats it for now ;)
 

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